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  • WATCH: Twenty-Five Years After 9/11

    WATCH: Twenty-Five Years After 9/11

    Peter Wood reflects on 25 years of national security failures, educational decline, and the fading memory of 9/11.

    National Association of Scholars (NAS) President Peter Wood appears on Night Class, a podcast hosted by my colleagues Scott Turner and Ian Oxnevad, to reflect on the 25th anniversary of…

  • Do You Remember September?

    Do You Remember September?

    Three days of tragedy, and a question about how we remember them.

    On September 9, 2021, my grandmother died, a little more than two weeks after my grandfather. They contracted the Delta variant of COVID-19 in early August that year and then…

  • What Charlie Kirk Taught Me

    What Charlie Kirk Taught Me

    Charlie Kirk showed that the right way to fight is with truth.

    It seems oddly fitting to me that the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom falls on the day before the anniversary of 9/11. Those two events are forever linked in my…

  • Alternatives Are Having a Moment

    Alternatives Are Having a Moment

    More students are looking beyond the four-year degree—and the U.K. offers an apprenticeship model for entry into white-collar careers.

    As more than two million students enrolled in college this fall, many others chose not to. Instead, more and more young people are turning away from the traditional college model…

  • An Award for Unpopular Truth

    An Award for Unpopular Truth

    Bill Ackman and Roland Fryer want to make academic courage worth the risk.

    The powerful Woke Supremacy that has dominated American academic life in modern times has had many detrimental effects, but perhaps the greatest is that it has promoted academic self-censorship and…

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    Tinfoil Is Optional

    A once-fringe subject is finding a home in university research.
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  • Tinfoil Is Optional

    Tinfoil Is Optional

    A once-fringe subject is finding a home in university research.
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    The Promise of a New Golden Age

    The White House report advances many reforms the National Association of Scholars has long advocated.

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